Trump declares thousands of deaths in Puerto Rico fake news

Alfred Griffith

Donald Trump has rejected the widely accepted Puerto Ricohurricane death toll, saying without evidence that "3,000 people did not die". They then compared this baseline to the actual number of deaths, and voila!

The official death toll has been contested since the hurricane struck in the fall of 2017.

Thursday morning on Twitter, he disputed that 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria one year ago.

"We left this analysis to the scientists and experts, recognising that there would be many challenges, because we wanted to have a powerful and independent voice to minimise the uncertainty", he said in a video on Facebook. "He's the president of the United States, but I don't agree with a lot of what he says about us". The upshot was the president claimed the numbers were concocted merely to make him look bad.

The death toll study was commissioned by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, a member of Puerto Rico's "New Progressive Party".

Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the USA, is home to some 3.3 million people.

That number was produced by public health experts at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in a report commissioned by the US territory's governor, Ricardo Rossello.

There's growing sentiment that this is the worst tweet by Trump ever.

But Trump has continued to praise his own government's response to the disaster in Puerto Rico.

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Photos have emerged showing 20,000 pallets of bottled water meant for victims still sitting on a runway in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, a year after the storm.

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